Google Honors Stephen Hawking’s 80th Birthday with an Animated Doodle and a Narration in the Physicist’s Voice

Google has created a unique animated Doodle to commemorate Stephen Hawking’s 80th birthday. It includes a two-and-a-half-minute film in the physicist’s own computer-generated voice that recounts his contributions to the universe as well as his battle with neurological disease. Stephen Hawking is the most well-known scientist of our time, with his well-known ideas on black holes and the Big Bang. He has an iconic status. His best-selling books make modern physics accessible to millions of readers around the world, in addition to his contributions to the discipline.

Google has designed a new Doodle in honour of the English cosmologist, as well as a dedicated piece that details his journey. Users can access the post by clicking on the Doddle. Stephen William Hawking was born in the English city of Oxford in 1942. The documentary also illustrates how, despite being diagnosed with a neurological condition at the age of 21, he investigated the cosmos’ greatest secrets.

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Hawking defended his doctoral thesis, “Properties of Expanding Universes,” at the University of Cambridge in 1965, which presented the revolutionary theory that space and time originated from a singularity, an infinitely small and dense point that is best known today as the key characteristic of black holes.

Hawking began his career as a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge.

Particles could escape black holes, according to Hawking, who discovered this in 1974. This hypothesis, known as Hawking radiation, is widely regarded as his greatest contribution to physics. Hawking’s work on black holes led to his appointment as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1979, a position previously held by Isaac Newton in 1669. In 2017, Hawking’s doctoral thesis was made available to the public on a University of Cambridge website, which crashed due to high traffic. In 2018, he passed away at the age of 76.

The artist Matthew Cruickshank created the Google Doodle, and the tech giant has confirmed that the voice of Stephen Hawking was synthesised and utilised in the Doodle with the Hawking estate’s permission.